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Message: <blockquote data-quote="candidus_cogitens" data-source="post: 430780" data-attributes="member: 770">Good question.  The increase you get by raising your intelligence (or other primary ability for spellcasting) is going to be negligible in comparison to the increases your foes get to saving throws.   My hunch is that at higher levels, your lower level spells are going to become increasingly ineffective.  But that is as it should be, I suppose.  It would be just silly if you could down a frost giant with a simple sleep spell.This makes me consider picking up more spells that don't involve a saving throw at all:  magic missile, for example, and buffing spells like cat's grace.  That way, as you get to higher levels, you can still use those low level spell slots for something.I *think* that the higher DCs for higher level spells are proportionate to the higher saves for characters who have "good saves" in the relevant category.  So, that means if you are using your toughest spells, you would still have about the same rate of success against a monk as you did when you were both at first level.  (Double check me on this!)</blockquote>